University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to break down plastic waste and turn it into a Parkinson's drug, ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Scientists engineer E. coli to convert PET plastic bottle waste into L-DOPA, a primary treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Plastic recycled to make vital drug in major milestone - ...

Scientists have discovered how to turn used plastic bottles into a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh genetically engineered bacteria to break down waste ...

The Finnish company says it has commissioned the world’s largest upgrading facility for liquefied plastic scrap, helping it to scale up chemical recycling.